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(Issue Story)Red Tag or Dot Means Sold
You’ve seen it hundreds of times at antiques or art shows, in art galleries too—the red sold tag stuck in the corner of a painting, half visible inside a chest drawer, or stuffed into a crevice of a weathervane. More subtle, and some might argue classier, is the red dot. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rubenstein Pleads No Contest
Art dealer Perry Rubenstein, 63, pleaded no contest on March 30 to charges that he failed to pay more than $1 million to the owners of paintings sold through his gallery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Rubenstein entered his plea to two counts of grand theft by embezzlement. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Corporation Pleads Guilty in Ivory Case
In New York state’s first Class D felony conviction since new ivory legislation was instituted in 2014, the corporation that owns Landmark Gallery, a Manhattan art and antiques store, pleaded guilty to selling illegal elephant ivory, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced on March 8.
Changes to New York state’s ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Revolution at Home: The Muhlenberg Family of Pennsylvania
The town of Trappe in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was named for its tavern. The story, told in the journal of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, is about an English fellow who had stayed too long at John Jacob Schrack’s tavern, had a row with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A View of Old Newburyport
A rare daguerreotype from the collection of the Museum of Old Newbury in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is featured in East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., through July 16. The exhibition will be at the New Orleans Museum of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 Spring Greater York Antiques Show
York, Pennsylvania
Bob Bockius of Mitchell Displays took over the management of the Greater York Antiques Show when Donna Burk, widow of Jim Burk, decided to retire in 2012 and sell the show. Since then he has put on two shows a year. His loyal core of dealers say they like ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Potter & Potter Takes a Gamble
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter Auctions
Snug in a corner of an American gambler’s chest from around 1880, surrounded by chips, dice, a cigar cutter and holder, playing cards, and a scrimshawed ivory-handled pocket knife, lay an engraved pistol with a mother-of-pearl handle.
“It might be needed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's Scales Back in a Shrinking Market
Citing a shrinking market and an untenable business plan, Christie’s announced that it will close its secondary South Kensington salesroom in London at the end of this year and scale back its operations in Amsterdam to two contemporary art sales a year. “The current proposal is to offer a single ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Collected--a Sampler of Books on Collectors and Collecting
A review copy of yet another book on collectors and collecting, Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present by Erin L. Thompson, has recently come through my mail slot. Its arrival has prompted me to take a look at the previously published books on this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Ethnographic Art at Auction
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
American Indian and ethnographic art representing an array of collecting arenas was center stage at Skinner’s May 5 auction in its Boston gallery, including pottery, weavings, baskets, pre-Columbian art, and Native American objects from the northeastern woodlands and the American plains. Previewers at the sale were treated ... (Read More)
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